I’ve been out, so I just found out about Michael Steele’s self-inflicted foot wound: Michael Steele: Stanley McChrystal incident ‘comical’.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele found the dismissal of Gen. Stanley McChrystal “comical” because the “one thing” the United States should not be engaged in is a “land war in Afghanistan.”

“The McChrystal incident, to me, was very comical,” Steele said, reflecting on the general’s dismissal after his critical remarks of President Barack Obama’s handling of the war in Afghanistan were printed by Rolling Stone.

“I think it’s a reflection of the frustration that a lot of our military leaders have with this administration and their prosecution of the war in Afghanistan,” Steele said.

The RNC chairman then seemingly launched into an attack of the president’s choice to stay the course in Afghanistan, a decision widely supported by many of Steele’s GOP colleagues.

“Keep in mind again, federal candidates, this was a war of Obama’s choosing,” Steele said. “This was not something that the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.”

“It was the president who was trying to be cute by half by building a script demonizing Iraq, while saying the battle really should in Afghanistan,” Steele said of Obama. “Well, if he is such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that’s the one thing you don’t do is engage in a land war in Afghanistan?”

Why, it’s almost as if he deliberately tried to blame the whole Afghanistan War on President Obama. Why would he do that?